§ CAPTAIN NORTONI beg to ask the Secretary of State for War if he can state why the gratuities to officers specially taken into employment during the South African War, as laid down in the Royal Pay Warrant, paragraph 601B, have not yet been paid, and when they are likely to be paid.
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR WAR (Mr. ARNOLD-FORSTER, Belfast, W.)I am afraid that the hon. and gallant Member is under some misapprehension. These gratuities have been paid as they became due. In some cases, however, they have been altogether withheld owing to the unsatisfactory nature of the service of the officers concerned; and in a few cases they have been held back where the officers' accounts were not satisfactorily rendered.
§ CAPTAIN NORTONIf I give the big cases in which they have not been paid will he inquire into them.
§ MR. ARNOLD-FORSTERYes.